noun Gaming Slang

sustain

· noun · gaming

Self-healing or mitigation that keeps you topped up in lane and fights.

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Healing, lifesteal, or damage reduction that lets you stay healthy without backing. Champs with strong sustain win drawn-out lanes because they just heal back up the poke. Low sustain means you get bullied off the wave.

“"His sustain is crazy, I poke him down and he heals it all back by the next wave."”
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As a verb, to sustain is to keep yourself alive through healing/regen. Often paired with poke matchups, the question is whether your sustain outlasts their damage.

“"I can't out-sustain her, she's running lifesteal and a heal."”
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sustain In A Sentence

"His sustain is crazy, I poke him down and he heals it all back by the next wave."
"I can't out-sustain her, she's running lifesteal and a heal."

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What does sustain mean in gaming?

It's self-healing or mitigation that keeps you topped up in lane and during fights.

How do you use sustain in a sentence?

"That champion has so much sustain you can never poke them out of lane."

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